Which do you feel is more important, net income or net cash flow? Why?

What might a Cash Flow Statement tell you that an Income Statement would not?

The Cash Flow Statement has only been required in the United States since 1988. Why do you think it has risen in importance since then?

3) Globalization increasingly defined much of America’s social and economic life around the turn of the millennium.

(A) Explain how and why processes of globalization accelerated during the 1990s and 2000s. Include immigration in your answer and discuss how it changed American culture.

(B) Summarize the benefits and drawbacks of globalization as the United States advances into the twenty-first century.

In July 2015, health insurance company Anthem announced that it would buy rival insurer Cigna for $48.3 billion. What are your views about such major health insurance companies' mergers and acquisitions? Discuss two potential impacts of these mergers for hospitals whose primary source of patient care reimbursement are these health insurance companies in the United States.

In a recent Gallup poll, 1003 randomly selected adults in the United States were asked if they have a gun in their home, and 37.2% of them answered “yes”.

Construct a 95% confidence interval estimate of the percentage of all adults who would answer “yes” when asked if they have a gun in their home.

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The United States has almost $25 Trillion in debt of which $20 Trillion trades daily as government bills, bonds, and notes – obligations which in theory have to be retired when they mature. Lately the interest rates have been below 2% reflecting an economy struggling to grow. What impact will that have on the ability to retire the debt?

3. How do the three factors that influence the size of subnational governments (variations in demand, spatial externalities, and economies of scale) explain the large number of local governments in the United States?  Why might a country like Australia have fewer local government bodies?

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The role of a bank is to move funds from savers to spenders. What happens when savings rates are too high? An example would be people saving so much money that the banks cannot keep up? Would you agree that the United States is in that situation now? What could the Federal Reserve do to help solve that problem?

United States has a large deficit with many of its trading partners; yet, the deficit will continue to exist or may even grow larger in foreseeable future. Discuss why. (Hint: buying power of American citizens compared to citizens of other countries, over-valued dollars, freedom of choice of our citizens allowed by our government.)

Everyone has a sense of how the macroeconomy is doing. Is it a mistake to go off of our own experience about what may be happening overall in the United States? How might individual experience lead one astray in thinking about the macroeconomy? How might it help? How do you determine how you think the macroeconomy is doing?

1. What do you believe would be the best choice for a tax system in the United States? Do you think things should stay as they are? Why? or should we revamp the tax system?

2. Which tax systems or approaches do you recommend? Why?

3. What are the potential problems with the choice you made?